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Keep a team knowledge base alive — the gardener role and its weekly half-hour, the rot signals (stale pages, orphans, duplicates) and their fixes, the capture funnels that feed the garden, and the pruning that keeps search useful. Use when asked our wiki is a graveyard, who maintains the knowledge base, set up knowledge management that lasts, or people can't find anything anymore. Produces the gardener rotation, the weekly tending routine, the rot triage, and the capture funnels.

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# Knowledge Gardening Skill

Knowledge bases don't die of bad writing — they die of no gardener: pages rot silently, duplicates sprout (because the original wasn't findable), orphans accumulate, and within two years search returns three contradictory versions of everything, teaching everyone to ask humans again. The fix isn't a heroic cleanup (that's the [shared-drive-cleanup](../shared-drive-cleanup/SKILL.md) move, needed once) — it's *gardening*: a named rotating role, a weekly half-hour routine, rot signals with standard fixes, and capture funnels that turn the team's answered-questions and decisions into pages while they're fresh.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The gardener role** — rotating (monthly), scoped (a half-hour weekly), with the routine written
- **The weekly tending routine** — the four moves: triage new, fix flagged, prune one, merge duplicates
- **The rot triage** — the signals (stale-flag, orphan, duplicate, contradicting) and each one's standard fix
- **The capture funnels** — the answered-twice rule, decision-log links, and the offboarding harvest

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